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Today's Topics:
1. logs (Lucio Otavio)
2. Glenn Hauser logs September 4, 2008 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4. HCDX logs between 2008-09-04 0000 UTC and 2008-09-05 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
5. Bulletin: CFRX Toronto is back (Glenn Hauser)
6. Re: Bulletin: CFRX Toronto is back (Glenn Hauser)
7. Re: Bulletin: CFRX Toronto is back: QRM (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:06:37 -0300
From: "Lucio Otavio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
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3935, New Zealand, R.Reading Service, Levin. September-04 EE 0926-0946 YL
talks, music, 0930 OM talks. Poor, some improve around 0941, 24322 (lob-B).
5910, Colombia, Marf?l Est?reo, Lomalinda. September-04 SS 0951-1003 Bolero and
romantic Spanish selections alternating OM talks, at 1001 mentioned "Marfil".
Almost unreadable by QRM from both sides, from 1000 quicker deterioring, 32333
(lob-B).
73
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:40:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 4, 2008
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** AUSTRALIA. RA with throw-away feature Perspective, Thu Sept 4 at 1355 on
6020 and 9580. It only lasted 3.5 minutes this time, but nevertheless, both
frequencies dumped out of it at 1358, 6020 going immediately to unnecessary IS
before closing in time for Shiokaze at 1400, inaudible here; and 9580 just
cutting rudely off air, forcing us to retune to inferior 9590 for the rest of
the show. The remaining sesquiminute before 1400 news was filled by the RA news
sounder already and promos.
Perspective is so dispensable that it isn`t even shown for 1355 at
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/141.htm
but just M-F 0955 and 1654 and Sat 2105, none of them convenient times for SWLs
in North America. Fortunately, via its website
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/
one may read transcripts or even subscribe. The one I heard was actually for
Sept 3, ``Staying good while playing God - looking after animal welfare when
applying biotechnology`` and Roger Broadbent said it was the first of a series
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC 6180 still missing, Sept 4 at 0110. This is supposed to be in
Spanish to CAm, ex-6140, which swapped with it for English. Have not checked
the entire evening to learn if 6180 ever appears. If not, where did this
transmitter go? Meanwhile, English on 6000 and 6140 still suffer from low
modulation and hum, 6000 being worse. Those searching for a frequency
associated with my last report around 1400: I happened to be listening on 13680
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL. This is not a log per se, but a follow-up to my previous
report of VOLMET from AUSTRALIA, HAWAII, JAPAN. Tnx to Jari Savolainen who sent
link to VOLMET info for Asia and Pacific,
http://www.icao.or.th/meetings/2008/opmet_tf6/wp12.pdf
The schedule can be summarised as follows, in minutes past each hour; we wonder
if all frequencies are always used at once, or whether the highest are
day-only, the lowest night-only, which is SOP. The document also shows which
airports are covered in each 5-minute segment; that could also help to ID
source. Notice how several frequencies are 3 kHz apart. These aren`t often
reported even by utility DXers; they could be considered SWBC. Presumably
everything is in [robotic] English, the ICAO language, even tho `VOLMET` is
derived from the French:
PACIFIC: 2863, 6679, 8828, 13282
Tokyo 10-15, 40-45
Hong Kong 15-20, 45-50
Auckland 20-25, 50-55
However, a separate entry further down the list conflicts with above!
One would have expected Honolulu to fill in the 55-10 and 25-40 gaps if really
on the same frequencies. And in fact my log on 6679 had Honolu2 ID at :35 past!
PACIFIC: 2863, 6679, 8828, 13282
Honolulu 10-25, 40-55 [sic]
ASIA: 3458, 5673, 8849, 13285
Guangzhou 00-15, 30-45
Beijing 15-30, 45-60
EUROPE/ASIA: 3461, 4663, 5676, 10090, 13279
Tashkent 05-10, 35-40
Novosibirsk 10-15, 40-45
Khabarovsk 15-20, 45-50
Moskva 25-30, 55-60
Kyiv [blank, but presumably if active would fill one gap or the other:
00-05, 30-35
20-25, 50-55]
ASIA: 2965, 6676, 11387
Sydney 00-05, 30-35
Kolkata 05-10, 35-40
Bangkok 10-15, 40-45
Karachi 15-20, 45-50
Singapore 20-25, 50-55
Mumbai 25-30, 55-60
Then Liz Cameron sends a much more comprehensive VOLMET schedule, tnx to Bill
Hepburn`s site http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm which confirms my
suspicions about Honolulu; includes callsigns for most, and many more exotic
ones like Damascus. One could easily specialize in DXing and even QSLing these
VOLMETs, or at least add some countries otherwise difficult or impossible on
regular SWBC, such as IRELAND, GIBRALTAR, URUGUAY (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. One of my three local AM stations, KGWA 960, whose major lobe I
inhabit, is normally tolerable away from 960, but UT Sept 4 at 0055 I found it
was putting out dirty spurs audible between 860 and 1060, worst on 920, 1010,
1040, when checked on a 10-kHz-step receiver.
BTW, the local morning 1200+ UT ``Total Information`` news show is televised on
Pegasys, local public access cable channel 12 at noon weekdays; more convenient
than reading the paper myself, and it sounds like the newscaster is doing just
that. Fun to watch him move around the studio, gulp coffee during an axuality,
rub his nose, adjust the pantograph inaudibly. That`s J. Curtis Huckleberry ---
his real name? See him at http://www.audiostream.net/KOFM/jcurtis2.html To find
anything about KGWA you have to go to the website of its FM master
http://www.kofm.com --- even tho KGWA predates it by sesquidecades (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN. Andy Sennitt corrects my previous comments about the demise of
Sweden Calling DXers: don`t blame George Wood, but the management. Any program
at all like that could continue only if he dumped SW DX news for satellite
stuff, as gh paraphrases it, so MediaScan was born. My apologies in that case.
Meanwhile, it was announced on Thursday`s RS show, which had a feature on
Aland, that the anniversary special would repeat on Sunday Sept 7 (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ, 5110 was still on the air with rock music at 0106 UT Sept 4,
presumably a postlude to Area 51, scheduled 2300-0100. Not // 7415 which at
0113 was airing a preacher sounding suspiciously like Brother Scare. Remember,
WORLD OF RADIO is to appear on 5110 Fridays at 2300, then INTERNATIONAL RADIO
REPORT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. On 1060, UT Sept 4 at 0058, heard weather from the Radio Colorado
Network, then a quick string of IDs including KKKK Colorado Springs, but that
doesn`t apply to 1060, and then mentioned another chain, Rocky Mountain Radio
Network. Strangely enough, neither net is mentioned in the introduxion to the
year-old 2007 NRC AM Log, altho the former is in the entry for 1060 which is
really KRCN Longmont, and KKKK is on 1580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:55:12 +0000
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Subject: [HCDX] Logs
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markopik), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard
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5110 USA WBCQ 09/04 2355-0025 Tuned in as Captain Ganja was signing off
his show because he had to, as he put it, "...take a shower and wash all the
grease out of my long, long hippie hair." Then usual stuff on what was
announced as "The station that lifts and seperates." (Barker, Broomall PA)
6040 MOLDOVA Radio PMR 09/02 2215-2230 Gangbusters signal in EG. Program
on independence proclamation on Sep. 2nd 1990. At s/off gave address in
Moldova instead of Pridnestrovye, the self-declared independent region in
southeastern Moldova. Some kind of agreement with Moldovan govt? (Barker,
Broomall PA)
7505 USA WRNO 09/03 0300 Checked for WRNO but the freq was silent.
Checked other licensed freqs just in case, but nothing there either. Tuned
in again on 09/04 at 0100 to try for s/on but still no WRNO signal. (Barker,
Broomall PA)
9280 EGYPT R. Cairo 09/01 2130-2150 in EG for some reason (thought it was
usually AR at this hour). Strong signal but the worst modulation I have ever
heard from Cairo. Every third word or so was intelligible. As a blessing,
audio kept dropping out, once for 11 minutes. Carrier left all alone. Gave up
at 2150. Next day was in AR on 9280 with clean audio. On 09/02 I tuned to
Cairo in EG to Europe on 11550 at 2200. Again with the same defective
modulation. Is it just the EG services? (Barker, Broomall PA)
12035 SAO TOME VOA 09/01 2100-2130* FR relay for Africa. Nx after s/on
with several stories about Gustav hitting the Louisiana Gulf coast. Following
nx into long detailed report about Gustav. Then a special program about Willie
Nelson included playing some of his songs. Signal knocked your socks off at
s/on but began fading badly into band hash and became difficult to copy. At
2128 could hear short Yankee Doodle then the familiar VOA s/off in EG "This
program has come to you from Voice of America, Washington. This is VOA signing
off." Into Yankee again and s/off at 2130 on the dot. (Barker, Broomall PA)
15205 SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA 09/04 1600-1640 S/On with national anthem
followed by Q'uran recitations until 1607. Then OM sounded like reading,
followed by more Q'ran chanting. Band noise was high and finally swallowed the
signal by 1640. (Barker, Broomall PA)
Bruce Barker, Broomall, PA. NRD 535D, new Alpha Delta sloper isn't up yet so
it's still a short longwire.
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:05:02 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2008-09-04 0000 UTC and 2008-09-05
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:35:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Bulletin: CFRX Toronto is back
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** CANADA [and non]. Heard an unfamiliar het as I tuned across 49m, Sept 4 at
2315, on 6070. Something in English, yes IDing in passing as Newstalk 10-10,
CFRB, so the long-delayed revival of CFRX has finally happened! But it`s
off-frequency, about 6069.8. This could be a devious way of encouraging the
competition, such as CVC, to evacuate, as a het from this low-power station is
more annoying than being on exactly the correct frequency. CVC from Chile is
currently scheduled 23-13 UT, which covers almost all the darkness hours in
North America. And then there`s ELWA Liberia until 2300 or so. On second
thought, that`s unlikely; but CFRX previously was not off-frequency like this
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:57:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Bulletin: CFRX Toronto is back
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ODXA yg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected], Cumbre DX
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Just how long had CFRX been off? Altho it had been intermittent for a while
before then, about two years, per this item from September, 2006 in DXLD 6-144:
73, Glenn Hauser
** CANADA. Not certain if anyone else has mentioned this or not but
yesterday I had checked 6070 for CFRX and they were not there. Checked
today as well and not there again. Normally they are S9+ here through
the day (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, Sept 24, 2006, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CFRB/CFRX QSL signer Steve Canney told me on September 20th that CFRX
was off the air then. The chief engineer was looking for the problem,
but hadn`t found it. So it appears that the repairs were either too
extensive or he ran out of time and it must wait for another visit to
the transmitter site.
BTW, new QSL card has just been printed and is now in use for CFRX and
CFRB reception reports (Harold Sellers, Ont., Sept 24, 2006, ODXA via DXLD)
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:45:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Bulletin: CFRX Toronto is back: QRM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ODXA yg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected], Cumbre DX
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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But CFRX is also shooting itself in the foot, since the het it causes also
makes it very unpleasant for its own would-be listeners in North America, where
100 kW from Chile easily trumps or at least matches 1 kW from Toronto,
all-night. A little help: CVC in B-season shrinx to 00-12 UT. At least CFRX
should be OK in daytime for areas close enough to overcome absorption.
Adjacently: Not much in Western Hemisphere on 6065, with WYFR no longer using
it; DW is 24 hours via several rotating sites around Europe on 6075, and then
there`s RCI with a big 250 kW on 6075 at 0205-0305 in Spanish, 268 degrees, but
that`s for A-season only.
The need I advocated to change frequency and/or increase power with the
comeback was pooh-poohed by CFRX`s QSL manager. BTW, altho I did not see his
report until later, Steve Lare in MI was first to report CFRX back, earlier
Sept 4 at 2050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> Just how long had CFRX been off? Altho it had been
> intermittent for a while before then, about two years, per
> this item from September, 2006 in DXLD 6-144: 73, Glenn
> Hauser
>
> ** CANADA. Not certain if anyone else has mentioned this or
> not but
> yesterday I had checked 6070 for CFRX and they were not
> there. Checked
> today as well and not there again. Normally they are S9+
> here through
> the day (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, Sept 24, 2006, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> CFRB/CFRX QSL signer Steve Canney told me on September 20th
> that CFRX
> was off the air then. The chief engineer was looking for
> the problem,
> but hadn`t found it. So it appears that the repairs were
> either too
> extensive or he ran out of time and it must wait for
> another visit to
> the transmitter site.
>
> BTW, new QSL card has just been printed and is now in use
> for CFRX and
> CFRB reception reports (Harold Sellers, Ont., Sept 24,
> 2006, ODXA via DXLD)
** CANADA. Heard an unfamiliar het as I tuned across 49m, Sept 4 at 2315, on
6070. Something in English, yes IDing in passing as Newstalk 10-10, CFRB, so
the long-delayed revival of CFRX has finally happened! But it`s off-frequency,
about 6069.8. This could be a devious way of encouraging the competition, such
as CVC, to evacuate, as a het from this low-power station is more annoying than
being on exactly the correct frequency. CVC from Chile is currently scheduled
23-13 UT, which covers almost all the darkness hours in North America. And then
there`s ELWA Liberia until 2300 or so. On second thought, that`s unlikely; but
CFRX previously was not off-frequency like this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
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